Improvement in wash-boilers



` 2 Sheets--Sheet 1. W. H. LOWREY.

Improvement in Wash-Boilers.

No. 131,285. Patented sep.1o,1872.

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w.N H. LowR'EY.

Improvement in Wash-Boilers.

Patented Sep. 10,v 1872.

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WILLIAM H. LOWREY, OF OOLUMBIANA, OHIO.

imPRovEMENT IN WASH-Bodens.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,285, dated September 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLLAM H. Lownnr,

of Columbiana, in the county of Columbianaviding the ordinary wash-boilerwith the hereinafter-described device for distributing the boiling water or suds over and through the clothes during the process of boiling them.

' In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of my specification, Figure lis a vertical and longitudinal section, at line y of Fig. 2, of my device for distributing the boiling water or suds over and through the clothes, and also represents it in its position with relation to the wash-boiler, shown by the dotted lines x. Fig. 2 is a vertical and transverse section of the same at line y of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my improved device.

A represents the chamber in which the water or suds is heated to boiling or point of ebullition. This chamber is formed by the iiange h and corrugated plate f, and is furnished vwith a series of openings, t', in the flange h, and at the upper edge of the fiange with a large number of apertures, n, formed bythe corrugations of the top plate j'. These openings i and apertures u are used for the purpose of allowing the boiling water or suds to flow back into the chamber A after having been distributed among the clothes in the process of boiling them. From the corrugated plate f project upward two hollow columns, B, which communicate with each other, and are stayed and held firmly with relation to each other and the corrugated plate f through the medium4 of the distributing pipe or cha-mber O, provided with a large number of small openings, s. The columns B at their upper end communicate with a distributing-chamber, I), which is provided on its under side with a large number of small openings, u, and is also provided with two tubes, c, which pass down over the upper ends of the columns B, so that they may be lengthened, thereby adapting the device to wash-boilers of different depths or to the height of the clothes in the boiler.

The distributing device hereinbefore described niay be constructed of sheet copper, zinc, tin, or other suitable metal 5 but I give the preference to tin on account of cheapness, and it 'will be found to answer the desired end.

As the construction of the hereinbefore-described distributing device will readilybe understood by the skillful mechanic, I will therefore proceed to describe its operation, which is as follows The distributing device is placed in the wash-boiler, as indicated in Figs. l and 2. The clothes are then soaped77 and placed in the boiler and covered with water 5 or the desired quantity of water may be iirst placed in the boiler and then the soaped clothes. The boiler is then placed on the stove or other heating arrangement, and when the water becomes heated to the point of ebullitiou it will pass up through the columns B B, and from vthem into the chambers O and D, from which it is forced through the openings s and n, among, through, and over the clothes, thereby thoroughly, and with great dispatch, washing out the dirt, after which they are rinsed and otherwise prepared, which further operation is well understood by the good housewife or washerwoman. Y

The corrugated top plate f will so hold up the clothes that the hot suds will be distributed under them, which thereby greatly facilitates and aids in washing the dirt out of them.

From the foregoing descriptionit will be observed that the boiling suds are distributed under the clothes by means of the corrugated -plate f, and through the body of the clothes by means of the chamber distributing-pipe O, and over the top surface of the clothes through the medium of the chamber D. The suds, after being distributed under, through, and over the clothes, iiow back into the chambers A through openings t' and apertures n.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim as of my invention is `The chamber A, provided with a corrugated top plate, f, said chamber communicating with the chambers O and D throughA the medium of the hollow columns B, which can be lengthcned by means of tubes c, the whole constructed and operating substantially as herein described, and for the purpose set forth'.

IV. H. LOWREY.

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